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Pakistan lifts Tiktok ban for third time
Karachi: The Sindh High Court (SHC) Friday has withdrawn the decision on banning popular video sharing application TikTok and directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to restore the platform.

As per details, the order came on a plea of the telecommunication regulator requesting the court to withdraw its order that called for a ban to be placed on Tiktok.
The court directed the PTA to decide the petitioner’s complaint against the app until July 5.
The court issued the order on a petition filed by a citizen dejected by the "immorality and obscenity" spread by content on popular video-sharing mobile application.
In October 2020, the PTA had banned TikTok for the first time over complaints regarding indecent and immoral content.
The government lifted ban 10 days later after assurance from the management that they would block all accounts repeatedly involved in spreading obscenity and immorality.
In March, the PTA had directed internet service providers to immediately block access to TikTok in accordance with the orders of the Peshawar High Court.
The PHC had imposed a temporary ban on the platform's functioning in the country on a petition filed by several citizens stating that the content shared on the application were in violation of Pakistan’s Constitution, guaranteeing social and moral well-being of citizens.
The ban, however, was lifted by the PHC a few weeks later, with a direction to the PTA to take steps to ensure that "immoral content" was not uploaded to the platform.

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